We start with an Epic Battle Raging On Wall Street that has seen small time Amateur Investors take on the titans of the hedge fund industry. Its all centred around this company the struggling us computer Game Retailer gamestop. It shares have soared at much as 1700 after a group of private investors used online forums to drive up their price. And that has raised serious questions about how Financial Markets operate in the era of social media, as paul hawkins reports. This is a story of david versus goliath, of the amateur online investor beating the Big Traditional Wall Street traders. At the centre of it, gamestop, a struggling American Retailer Selling dvds and video games. A number of the Wall Street Traders picked up on its problems and bet money that its share price would fall, known in the business as shorting a stock. Only for this particular stock, Amateur Investors swapping tips on the social media site reddit saw it as an opportunity. They bought shares, which actually drove
Kind of takes the relief trade, if you will, out of the treasury market. Have a vaccine but have to deal with the rising case counts. Its difficult for Bond Investors to show no caution to the wind. Think about what actually has the chance to survive. Jeff rosenberg is joining us right now. What a week it has been in the market, tested in several fronts. Lets talk about credit first. We have the fed and the treasury having a little bit of a spat over the emergency programs introduced this year. I have to say this market has responded quite well to it. What was your take . The the most important of support measures are not affected, these were not used very much. They were most effective on announcement date, not much uptake. The market is seeing through that, and its a little bit less of a significant Market Reaction because it is less of a significant issue, if those support measures were to fall away. Pointsn as my colleague out, hasnt harmed the appetite for debt. We have been tryin
But the breakdown of oil today on Global Demand is really significant. Under 40, not only but well on to new lows right now, 39. 71 on world oil. It is much more about the pandemic than it is the epsilon off the american election. Jonathan a breakdown on the equity benchmark in frankfurt, germany, the dax suffering. What is new about today . The dollar bid through g10 against e. M. You mentioned the turkish lira this morning as well. The Dollar Strength returns with a bit of a vengeance this wednesday morning. Tom let me triangulate again here triangulate yen here, folks. You throw the dollar out and look at euroyen, and euroyen clearly indicates weak euro. Lisa teladoc a. M. , german chancellor ashtead 00 a. M. ,erman chancellor 10 00 a. M. German chancellor Angela Merkel discussing new restrictions to stave off the rapidly increasing number of cases of covid. Also at 10 00 a. M. , ceos of facebookalphabet, and are testifying to a Senate Committee on restrictions of political messages
About 24 hours away from the first debate between president ial contenders joe biden and donald trump. It also brings forward the conversation about wealth disparity in the u. S. The wealthy and businesses looking to take advantage of the tax system. Missable budgets are strained amid the pandemic. Just this weekend, asking for low tax, well governed states to give him a call, he is looking to move may be. This whole theme today back in the spotlight. President trump responding to that New York Times report yesterday. Pres. Trump total fake news. Actually, i paid tax. You will see that as soon as my tax returns. It is under audit and they have been under audit for a long time. Predictably, trump calling the report fake news, but not refuting it in any way and, and of course he could by releasing his taxes. That report and more coming. Romaine for all of the ethical and character issues that this may raise, it does not appear that he did anything wrong in terms of the law. The tax code
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